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Note 127 — APRIL.

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A small bell used in the ceremony of the mass, and rung on the elevation of the consecrated host.

[128] A pickpocket.

[129] A pickpurse, or cutpurse, so called from persons having their purses hanging in front from their girdle.

[130] Maitland.

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